2021 Conference Program

November 6, 2021

Forest Lawn Memorial Museum, Glendale CA

SESSION ONE  

Renaissance Receptions and Receptions of the Renaissance 
Chair: Ilan Mitchell-Smith (CSU, Long Beach) 
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Adam Rzepka (Montclair State University), 鈥溾榃hat hath he in his boxe?鈥: The Enduring Fantasy of Shakespearean Decryption鈥
Valentina Prosperi (University of Sassari), 鈥淓xotic, Familiar Troy: The Dictys-Dares Narrative in Fifteenth Century Italian Art鈥
Simon Smets (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies), 鈥20th-Century Reception of Neo-Latin Authors from the Malatestian
Court in Rimini鈥 

Replication and Reception of Renaissance Art and Artists
Chair: Heather Graham (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection 
Pierette Kulpa (Kutztown University), 鈥淢ichelangelo Buonarroti circa 1911: Copies, Nationalism, and Legends of Authenticity at the 1911 Roman Universal Exposition鈥
Allan Doyle (Parsons School of Design), 鈥淢ichelangelo Twice Removed: Th茅odore G茅ricault in Santissima Annunziata鈥
Catherine H. Lusheck (University of San Francisco), 鈥淩ubens Reinventing Leonardo in His Early Mature Drawings, c. 1600-1608鈥

SESSION TWO

Enduring Medievalisms and the Study of the Middle Ages
Chair: James Fishburne (Forest Lawn Museum)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection 
Peter Brown (University of North Florida), 鈥淓vangeline Wilbour Blashfield: A Forgotten Pioneer of Medieval Art History in America鈥
Kristine Tanton (Universit茅 de Montr茅al), 鈥淭he Cloister at Saint-Pierre de Moissac after the Middle Ages: Survival and Fragmentary Embodiment鈥
Luis Javier Cuesta Hern谩ndez (Universidad  Iberoamericana), 鈥淩eligious Architecture in Mexico 1850-1920: The Revival of Medieval Aesthetics as an International Statement in the Construction of Local Identities鈥
Alison Locke Perchuk (CSU, Channel Islands), 鈥淏efore-and-Afterlives: The Temple of Santa Sabina as Perpetual Anachronism鈥

Role Playing the Renaissance
Chair: Aleksandra Sherman (Occidental College)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Sarah Ostendorf (Occidental College), 鈥淚sn鈥檛 It Romantic? Genre, Genealogy, and Alterity鈥
Shannon McHugh (University of Massachusetts), 鈥淧etrarch鈥檚 Handbook for Happily Ever After鈥
Leah Benedict (Kennesaw State University), 鈥淭he Strange Afterlife of Elizabeth鈥檚 Collar鈥 

PRESENTATION: Michelangelo and the 21st Century Sculptor
Christopher Slatoff and James Fishburne (moderator)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection 
Christopher Slatoff, an artist who specializes in monumental sculpture for universities and churches, will discuss and demonstrate the influence of Michelangelo's sculpture and sculpting techniques on contemporary figurative sculptors. 

SESSION THREE

Gender, Race, and Authorship
Chair: Marie Kelleher (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Forest Lawn Museum Gallery
Kathryn Chew (CSU, Long Beach), 鈥淭he Reception of an Ancient Greek Novel with an Eastern Theme in 17th-Century France鈥
Madison Forbes (Fordham University), 鈥淢edieval Biofiction: The Afterlife of Medea鈥
Tara Dybas (UC, Riverside), 鈥淭eaching Christine de Pizan鈥檚 The Book of the City of Ladies (1405): Radical Death Studies and Racialized Spaces鈥

Modern Medievalisms
Chair: Ilan Mitchell-Smith (CSU, Long Beach) 
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection 
Kirstin Noreen (Loyola Marymount University), 鈥淭radition, Adaptation, and Innovation: The Use of Miraculous Images during the Coronavirus Pandemic鈥
Larisa Grollemond (Getty Museum) and Bryan C. Keene (Riverside City College), 鈥淔antasy Futures: Medievalisms and the Display of Medieval Art in the Museum鈥
Meaghan Allen (University of Manchester), 鈥溾業鈥檒l be back in the Middle Ages鈥: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Modern Medieval Text鈥

PLENARY SESSION
Afterlives, Colonialism, and Indigenous Cultures of the Americas: A Conversation
Moderator: Heather Graham (CSU, Long Beach)
Location: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection 
Luis Javier Cuesta Hern谩ndez, Universidad Iberoamericana
Jesse Lerner, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College
Elena Shtromberg, Professor of Art History, University of Utah

RECEPTION: Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection